Should this happen?
If you are married. If you profess to be a team. You two are now one. You call the skids "your family", you want say in how things are done with someone elses kids in your home.
Should a stepparents income be considered as household income when figuring CS amounts?
But NO! A SP's finances should not be counted they did not make the kid they have no legall obligation to that kid
If my income is calculated then my child from a previous relationship should be calculated and I should have equal rights to my step daughter -
but since I don't and I don't want rights to my step daughter - nope, not paying child support for her either. My husband pays a fair amount though, and BM, my DH and I all agree it's pretty fair
the problem is that parents can't have it both ways - they can't expect step parent to contribute financially to CS but not be allowed to have any say in the rearing of the child. It kind of sucks because I'm certain there are many people out there who don't pay a lot in child support becuase the parent is living off of the step parent's income - ... i can't speak from personal experience on this as I'm the step parent and when SS was a minor he lived with us and BM paid nothing.... so I actually DID contribute to everything but there are lots of different scenarios out there where people find the loop hole in the system....
This!!
Quoting luckystars2012:
Not unless SP is going to be granted legal rights to the child and given thei own parenting time.
NO it shouldn't be calculated. Step parents have no legal rights to the children, so why should they
be legally financially responsbile. Most of us stepparents do use our income to help support our stepkids.
My dh was out of work for 9 months one year and 4 months just recently, I am a CSM so I paid all of our
household bills, My income was the only income being used to support all of us. But I still wouldn't want to
be legally financially responsible for my steps.
Quoting CoochieLibre:Hmm. That's a tough one. If SP's income is calculated into CS then would SP have a say in all things pertaining to the children?
I don't think it should be, but I think some SPs like having it one way even though they're accusing the parents of wanting it that way.
There are SM's here that talk about the say they have and how they "influence" the parent they are married to to make the decisions they think are best, how some even say they run the show. But if money comes into it...heck no.
But the minute a post like this pops up it is the parents who want it one way... some SPs like to have some say over kids that are not theirs and act like mom needs to get over that...
So saying if they have to include their money they get a say is not truthful in some the situations. The SP's already have a say, through their spouse...they just don't want to include their money
Step kids and extracurriculars
- baparrot2
on May. 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM